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Technology’s Impact on ‘Best-in-Class’ AP Teams
Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer-prize winning author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian once said that “people always underestimate the impact of technology.” One group not taking anything for granted are... Read more
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B2B Payments are Becoming Increasingly Strategic
In a world where the speed of business increases moment-by- moment, and new competitors lurk around the next financial statement, it is imperative that enterprises of all sizes take a... Read more
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Overcoming Traditional Challenges in AP Will Result in Modern Success
[Editor’s Note: Download Ardent’s State of ePayables 2020 market research report to get all of the information and more described in this article. Click here to download.] Every business function... Read more
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Accounts Payable’s New Agenda
There will be many lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and over the coming weeks and months we will cover and discuss their impact on accounts payable, the financial supply... Read more
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20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – Corcentric
Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site.... Read more
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Top Trends and Value Drivers for AP and Procurement: Automate and Collaborate
The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years, and these shifts – in communication technologies, in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, and in financial tools, among others... Read more
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Achieving Best-in-Class Results in AP with ePayables (New Webinar)
For all of the discussion regarding the future, it would behoove contemporary Accounts Payable (“AP”) units to model the series of key capabilities, competencies, technologies, and solutions that enable leading... Read more
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Payables Place First Thing: What Does It Take to Implement a Successful Payment Strategy?
Early payment discounts, dynamic discounting (DD), supply chain finance (SCF), the time value of money, the cost of capital, the cash conversion cycle, days sales outstanding (DSO), days payables outstanding (DPO),... Read more
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Payables Place First Thing: Early Payment Discounts and the Time Value of Money
What do early payment discounts and the ‘Time Value of Money’ have to do with one another? In a word, everything. If you’re in Accounts Payable (“AP”) or P2P, you... Read more
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Payables Place First Thing: Making Payment Exceptions a Thing of the Past
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve discussed payments automation as being the final frontier of Accounts Payable (“AP”) Automation, along with how electronic payments can be a source of... Read more